Sub-Creating Arda: World-building in J.R.R. Tolkien\u27s Work, its Precursors and its Legacies, edited by Dimitra Fimi and Thomas Honegger. Reviewed by Phillip Fitzsimmons.

Sub-creating Arda: World-building in J.R.R. Tolkien’s Work, its Precursors and its Legacies is a substantial anthology of works by contemporary Tolkien scholars about sub-creation, as described by J.R.R. Tolkien, and fantasy world-building in general. This collection of papers is often demanding, but well worth pursuing and can be read for pleasure or studied fruitfully by scholars at all levels. Dimitra Fimi and Thomas Honegger, the editors, summarize the scope of the book in their introduction..

Prosecutorial perceptions of discovery reform on a local level

In recent years, several states in the United States have considered and implemented discovery reforms to regulate how evidence is included and shared as criminal cases play out in the court system. Currently, little research explores how prosecutors have made sense of these reforms and how discovery changes have impacted their day-to-day routines. Consequently, this case study considers how prosecutors at a large prosecutorial agency in the United States made sense of discovery reforms implemented in its state two years before data collection. Findings are based on 35 semi-structured qualitative interviews and highlight how prosecutors experienced the implementation of the reforms, their perceived organizational impacts, and their effects on their relationships with the defense. The findings indicate that prosecutorial perceptions were mixed and that experiences varied, seeing some benefits and drawbacks in the discovery changes and noting some changes in how they interacted with the defense. This research yields important implications for policymakers and future research

July 2025

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Book Culture and Narrative in Martin’s \u3ci\u3eA Song of Fire and Ice\u3c/i\u3e

What do books represent in G.R.R. Martin\u27s A Song of Ice and Fire? This article examines their role as objects and their limitations within a narrative obsessed with loss of knowledge. Books, which are handled, lost, found, read, or destroyed, are both a shorthand for a fantasy world’s material culture, but also a metafictional nod to the reality of the reader. Contemporary fantasy authors, I posit, are both fascinated by texts, and also troubled by their limited chance of survival over the very long periods that the genre tends to sketch. Deep time is hostile to book knowledge, and it is the loss of knowledge that poses the greatest challenges to fantasy realms so concerned with the distant past. Contemporary fantasy is occupied by the assumption that knowledge must be sought where it is hidden; that book learning is marginalised and dismissed; that there is a scarcity of both books and knowledge more generally; but that the ‘hidden truth’ might not, in the end, be trustworthy. In short, transmission of information is threatened; and if Martin’s epic is also a meditation on climate catastrophe, these anxieties conjure a feeling of transcience and threat

Rogue Community College, by David R. Slayton. Reviewed by Phillip Fitzsimmons.

Mythprint is the quarterly bulletin of the Mythopoeic Society, a nonprofit educational organization devoted to the study, discussion, and enjoyment of myth and fantasy literature, especially the works of J.R.R. Tolkien, C.S. Lewis, and Charles Williams. To promote these interests, the Society publishes three magazines, maintains a World Wide Web site, and sponsors the annual Mythopoeic Conference and awards for fiction and scholarship, as well as local discussion groups

March 2025 Bulldog Alumni & Friends News

March 9-15 SWOSU Giving Week April 4 North Family Lecture & Friends of Crowder Lake Dinner April 9 Spring Football Game April 10-12 52nd Annual SWOSU Rodeo April 28 Everett Dobson Bulldog Golf Classic May 9 SWOSU Distinguished Alumni Hall of Fame Induction Ceremony & Dinner May 10 SWOSU Spring Commencemen